yellow and black leaves in his 1951 “Mimosa.” These artworks arrive as the culminating synthesis of his interest in brilliant color, flat pattern and Islamic design. Matisse's 1948 painting ...

An exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris examines Marguerite's indelible influence on her father's evolving painting ...

In the final work, Matisse removes the driver and any other road traffic, but leaves the top of his own sketch of the same painting visible, giving the work a strange meta-image quality.

Through the window behind him, a garden teeming with branches and leaves. Turning to paint, Matisse slowly pared the image back to the point where he felt that it expressed, in as concentrated a ...

Image Henri Matisse’s “La Japonaise ... at Collioure,” one of his best-known paintings, where the balance of the shapes of tree, leaves and hills are so carefully calibrated that the ...

Henri Matisse was born in 1869 and became one of art history’s most famous figures ... “If everyone who has any value leaves France, what remains of France?” Marguerite was an active ...

Here is art as frozen music. In his mastery of formal structure and lucid detail, Cézanne has been compared with J?S Bach, and Matisse also draws comparisons with a great composer. Not Stravinsky ...

The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam will return a Henri Matisse painting to the heirs of a Jewish textile manufacturer who sold the piece while fleeing Nazi Germany. The institution announced on ...

Van Hyfte’s a common figure in Matisse’s work, appearing at least three other paintings. Van Hyfte, who moved to Belgium from the Belgian Congo after her mother died when she was five ...